Vasco da Gama, Goa
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Vasco da Gama is a coastal city in the Indian state of Goa, known as a major port and commercial hub on the Arabian Sea.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vasco da Gama, Goa canonical | 19 |
| Vasco da Gama, Goa, India | 2 |
| Vasco da Gama (city in India named after Vasco da Gama) | 1 |
| Vasco da Gama port | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2304589 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vasco da Gama, Goa Context triple: [Dabolim Airport, locatedIn, Vasco da Gama, Goa]
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A.
Estêvão da Gama
Estêvão da Gama was a Portuguese nobleman and navigator from the famed da Gama family, active in the early period of Portuguese maritime expansion.
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Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese navigator who pioneered the sea route from Europe to India, becoming one of the most significant explorers of the Age of Exploration.
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C.
Francisco da Gama
Francisco da Gama is a central fictional figure in Salman Rushdie’s novel "The Moor’s Last Sigh," belonging to the eccentric, multi-generational da Gama family whose fortunes and conflicts drive much of the story’s plot.
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D.
Epifania da Gama
Epifania da Gama is a domineering and fiercely traditional matriarch in Salman Rushdie’s novel "The Moor’s Last Sigh," whose rigid values and powerful presence shape the fate of the da Gama family.
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E.
Calicut
Calicut, also known as Kozhikode, is a historic coastal city in Kerala, India, renowned as a key medieval spice-trading hub that attracted Arab, Chinese, and later European merchants.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vasco da Gama, Goa Target entity description: Vasco da Gama is a coastal city in the Indian state of Goa, known as a major port and commercial hub on the Arabian Sea.
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A.
Paulo da Gama
Paulo da Gama was a Portuguese navigator and the brother of Vasco da Gama, who accompanied him on the pioneering sea voyage from Europe to India in the late 15th century.
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B.
Estêvão da Gama
Estêvão da Gama was a Portuguese nobleman and navigator from the famed da Gama family, active in the early period of Portuguese maritime expansion.
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C.
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese navigator who pioneered the sea route from Europe to India, becoming one of the most significant explorers of the Age of Exploration.
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D.
Francisco da Gama
Francisco da Gama is a central fictional figure in Salman Rushdie’s novel "The Moor’s Last Sigh," belonging to the eccentric, multi-generational da Gama family whose fortunes and conflicts drive much of the story’s plot.
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E.
Epifania da Gama
Epifania da Gama is a domineering and fiercely traditional matriarch in Salman Rushdie’s novel "The Moor’s Last Sigh," whose rigid values and powerful presence shape the fate of the da Gama family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Vasco da Gama, Goa Description of subject: Vasco da Gama is a coastal city in the Indian state of Goa, known as a major port and commercial hub on the Arabian Sea.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Vasco da Gama, Goa
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subject linked to:
St. Andrew’s Church
linked to: Vasco da Gama, Goa
subject linked to:
Dabolim, Goa, India
subject linked to:
Vasco da Gama
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Vasco da Gama
subject linked to:
Vasco da Gama
subject linked to:
Vasco da Gama